The Portland daily press., 1887-08-02

PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Mr.. Gladstone is reported to have been
reading one OF Beaconsfialds speeches which
he put down with sigh and the remark,
with all his tinsel, he will be remembered
when am forgotten"
Mrs. Ulysses s. Grant is at Long Branch.
She is expecting visit from her daughter,
Mrs. Sartoris, in August. Mrs. Sartoris is
now at Southampton, England at the home
of her husbands father.
Denver, Col, is to have college for
women modelled after Wellesley or Vassar.
The Ladies College Society,"" which has
the matter in charge, will get incorporated
and will set to work pluckily to raise $780,
600 in real estate and cash.
The 73d anniversary of the battle of Lun-
dy's Lane was celebrated in great style a
week ago Monday by the Lundys Lane his
torical society of Drummondville, Ont. The
graves of the British and American soldiers
were decorated. relics of the battle were dug
up and shown, and it was proposed to erect
a monument on the battlefield.
Queen Victoria lhas very properly refused
to accept Lord Charles Beresford's resigna-
ton as junior lord of the admiralty. Lord
Charles was guilty of breach of etiquette
in signaling private directions from the royal
yacht while the queen was on board. The
ridiculous red-tape officials magniied the Of
Tense, and Lord Charles resigned.
The Detroit Free Press says that the star
spangled banner twas adopted as the ma
tional ensign and first given to the breeze" in
August, 1887, and proposes to have the ami
versary celebrated by a general display of
the national ensign on sea and land, and by
national salute at all military posts. In
point Of fact, however, the continental Con-
gress adopted the flag of IS stars and ID
stripes June IA, 1777. and it was first un-
fnrled the same day by Paul Jones on the
ship Ranger.
On last Sunday Capt. John Ericsson was
"a years old He is hale and hearty yet, and
seems likely TO continue so for years to
come. To many men it would have been
enough to have invented the monitor and
saved the United States navy; but the great
inventor has been at work just as hard for
the twenty-five years past as he was for the
decade previous to 1861. Should another war
come, one OF his later inventions might prove
almost as valuable to the country as the
Monitor was in its time.
1t seems as il curse had been inflicted on
Charles w. Reed, the well known lawyer,
and representing attorney Of Cook county,
ILL.,, who was associated with Lawyer SEQ
willie in the defenc. of Gaiteau, the assassin
of President Garfield. Since the trial Reed
has been going steadily to the bad. He be-
came mixed up in several questionable cases
in Washington, Chicago and other cities,
and gradually lost competency. The for
tune that he acquired during his earlier
years when he enjoyed lucrative practice
was entirely wasted, and only week before
last he was caught robbing money drawer
in New York. Shortly after this he at
tempted suicide
As President Cleveland and his party
were driving from Cazenovia, N. Y, to
Fayetteville, farmer in hay field beside
the road looked steadily, and when the party
had passed leaned on his pitchfork and
asked: SIS that Grove-the PRESIDENT" On
being assured of the fact he added: 81 want
to knowi The last time l saw him lhf7SaaS
riding along this very road, barenG,ck, and
without no shoes nor stockiisgs on AT the
next farm house farmer did not seem to
grasp the dSituatlotfdntn the President had
passed. Then k rs ran into the barn. brought
out an "a double barrelled gun and dis
<SHdfged both barrels in the Presidents hon
or.
To the fortune he has made out of ivory
trading, Mr.. Stanley, the explorer, viii be
able, If he returns safe, to add $4,000 which
he will receive from Bently, the London pub
ligher, for the book which he is about to
write about his present trip. This is very
large sum to get for single work. Thack-
cray never made over $4,000 for any one of
his books. Wilkie Collins got $4,000 for
Armadale. George Eliot got $4,000 for
Middlemarch Dickens got more than Thack-
cray, but far from as much for any one work
as Stanley. Scott, however, received $4,000
Tor Woodstock. There is big drop below
this, Lord Lytton getting only $4,000 for his
earlier novels. One must turn to the histo-
ries for anything like Stanley's price, Ma
caulay getting single check of 100000 for
left an estate of only 100000 and he died
with all the profits of his work about him,
while Mrs. Grant has received $494,OO0 for
General Grants memoir